I am high-heeled, pointy-toed shoes.
 I am pumpkin spice lattes and sweet desserts.
I am budgeter extraordinaire and world-class napper.
I am average in too many ways to count
But unusual in just enough ways to matter.
At first glance the staunch conservative
with the staunchly conservative family—
Ha ha, fooled you. 
Most days we are so full of grace 
that our hearts bleed.
Like my mother and father before me,
I’ll ask way more of myself
Than I’d ever ask 
Of you.